Robinson Crusoe

His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures

Daniel Defoe, Kathleen Lines, W.J. Linton , etc.

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Everyman's Library Children's Classics
04 December 1993

Classic fiction (Children's&YA)

Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS

Defoe's most celebrated story of Crusoe's shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his soliatry life on a desert island and his rescue of Man Friday has been abridged and retold many times since its publication (in two volumes) in 1719. It even appeared recently in graphic-novel form. In 1968 Kathleen Lines determined to make the original text more accessible to young readers by breaking Defoe's original, continuous narrative into chapters, slightly cutting Crusoe's long meditations, and compressing the relevant bits of THE FARTHER ADVENTURES into a neat Epilogue, so that readers learn what happened to Friday. The evocative engravings are reproduced from a mid-nineteenth-century edition published by Cassell, Petter & Gilpin.

By: Daniel Defoe
Illustrated by: W.J. Linton, etc., et al
Volume editor: Kathleen Lines
Imprint: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: 31
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781857159189
ISBN 10: 1857159187
Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
Pages: 409
Publication Date: 04 December 1993
Recommended Age: From 2 to 12
Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.

Reviews for Robinson Crusoe: His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures

Adapted, with a conscience, from Defoe under the supervision of Josette Frank, Children's Book Adviser of the Child Study Association of America. The old story still stands up as one of the best adventure yarns for children who are interested in tales of shipwreck. (Kirkus Reviews)